Review: Huggers

Posted on 4th May 2015
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Huggers is at The Quadrant is in the same patch as the Clock Tower and the access to the show upstairs at the rear of the bar or from some double doors in the alley outside. Best to leave buggies downstairs in the bar. The idea of Huggers is stand up comedy for kids, which is neat as it means that it is fast paced and the kids maintain their interest.

The show consisted of a friendly master of ceremonies and the first act was a guitar player who came up on stage and invited a few kids from the audience to take part in a great little song about farmyard animals.

Next up was a pirate who had the audience ‘ooohing’ and ‘arring’ along to his songs before taking us through 26 letters of the pirate alphabet and a whole host of pirate related jokes. We had a good singalong to’ what shall we do with the naughty pirate”. The pirate was really good at listening to the children and incorporating their shout-outs so the kids seemed to enjoy this slot the most.

The third hugger we saw was El Baldinio, a magician, sadly a technical fault prevented one piece of his show and he ended by offering the kids a choice of prizes including “who wants an xbox?” (egg box) or “who’d like a wii?” (a water bottle filled with something that look just like that!)

I love the idea of this show as the format has great potential for kids entertainment and supports a mini variety show interspersed with compere so in effect you could go back and see something different every week so this one could definitely be worth another look on another day too.